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They all specifically went to the Dilley Immigrant Prison.
in Texas today.
Dilley is about an hour outside of San Antonio.
These members of Congress went there to get the Gamez Cuellar family out of that prison.
The GΓ‘mez Cuellar family is a family from Texas.
They have two teenage sons who are part of an award-winning band at their high school.
Because of that band membership, they were invited to Washington, D.C., by their Republican congresswoman, Monica de la Cruz.
They and their band visited the White House, and they performed in Washington.
And then after they got home, the two brothers from that family and their parents were arrested by Trump's federal agents.
One of the brothers and the parents were locked up in that hellhole, that family prison in Dilley, Texas.
The older brother, the one who's 18, he was separated from his younger brother and his mom and dad.
He was locked up on his own three and a half hours further south in Texas, in Raymondville, Texas.
But all members of the family got out today after a lot of news coverage about what has been done to this family and after these seven, seven members of Congress got into Dilley to get them out.
The other facility that was just holding the older of the two teenage brothers, the older of the two high school boys in this family, this was Raymondville, Texas this weekend.
Local folks there rallying for the older teenage son in that family who was separated from his family and locked up there all alone.
Today, he got out from Raymondville as his mom and his dad and his younger brother got out from Dilley.
And Congressman Castro is now helping the whole family get home.
The largest ICE prison anywhere in the country is also in Texas.
It's way out in West Texas on the Fort Bliss military base.
They call it Camp East Montana.